Daily Republican., 1887-04-08

THAT'S just your worrying way
Frank; - II anyone could sew button
lon we'll In hurry. There my needle
has come unthreaded.N
"Oh, Fanny, Fanny y" sighed her hus.
band, fairly out Of patience at last
why didn't you do It laet night, Ms
begged Of you? shall miss the train
and what little chance we had OF place
10 Aunt Elizabeth's will, will be sacri
fced to your miserable habit o! always
being behsndhaudl"
Fanny gave him thu shirt and began
to within per little, but Mr.. Chickeily
had neither the time nor the inclination
to pause to soothe the petulant maui.
festation Of grief. Hs fnishcd bis
dressing, caught up his valise With a
hurriedly spoken good. bye" and ran
aown stairs two steps a. time, into the
5trost.
There 10 goes" muSmured Eaurv,
and he's gone away cross with me, and
all for nothing but q IN tserable butte q.
l Wish there WASN'T such O thing as q
button In the world"
"a wish which, We donbt not, many
another wifs than Mrs Chicksrly has
echoed, With perhaps better reason.
Mrs. Ohickerly was sitting down 10
her little dinner, with . daintily
Drowned chicken, Q tum bier of currant
jelly, q curly bunch OF celery ranged
before her, when, to her surprise, tho
door opened ard in walked her lord aad
husband.
"why. Frank. whore ON earth did
y0u come fr0m?" cried the astonished
wife.
"From thu Office" very coolly an
swsred Mr.. Chickerly.
"But I thought you were off for
Scenersvtlle In hurry"
81 found my self just five minutes TOO
late for the train, aftsr having run all
the way to the depot"
"Oh, that WAS too bad"
Ohickerly smiled little as he began
TO carve the chicken.
"Yes, / was not little ag uoyed nj
drst; 1t did seem rather provoking to bs
kept 81 homo by only . shirt button"
"What are you going to dL?"
why, ! shall make q second start
tomorrow"
I'm SEQ TO 1t that your break fast is
ready this time, 20 the second; and all
yeur wardrobe in TRIM" said Fanny,
rather relieved at the prospect Of q
chance Of retrieving her character.
"You need not I have euRa zed
room n hote! near the depot. can't
RON any more risks' -
He did not srssk unkindly, and yet
Fanny felt that he was deeply dis.
pleased with her.
"But, Frank"
I'VE will not discuss the matter any
further, my dear, II you please have
resolved to say nothing more to you
about reforms. see It ia useless, and
only tends to foster an unpleasant state
OF feeling between us. Shall help you
TO some more macoaroni?"
Fairly silenced. Fanny ate her dinner
with what appetite was left her.
Three days afserward Mr.. Ohickerly
onoo more made his entrance inst at
dusk, valiss in hand, while Fanny eat
enjoying tho ruddy light of the coal
hre and the consciousness of having
performed her duty in the mending and
general renovation OF her husbands
drawerful OF s5irts-a job which she
had long been drea1ing and postpon-
ing.
"Well, how Is Aunt Eliz sbsta?"I
questioned Mrs Chicherly, when her
husband, duly welcomed aud greeted
had seated himself in the Opposite easy
chair.
"Deed." was the brief reply.
Dead Oh, Franz or her old enemy.
apoplexv?"
"Yes''
"Was her will NADER"
Ut was. Apparently she bad OK.
p6ctod n,o on tho day she herself 40.
pointed; and gu my non arrival on the
only train that stope, she sent for the
village lawy Or, made her will, and lett
all her property TO the orphan asylum
In Scenersvile, with q few bitter words
10 the effect that the neglect OF her
only living nephew had Induced her.
on tue spur of The moment, to alter her
original intention of leaving It to him.
She died the next morning =
'Oa. Frank, how much was it?"
Ten Thousand dollars"
There was y moment or two OF ri
lenos, then Mr.. Cnickeriy added, com.
poseily:
"You see. Fanny. how much tina.
miseiag batton has cost mel'
Mrs. Chickerly sat like oae con
demned, By the uttersnce of her own
conscience. Not alone the missing but.
toa, but the scores-nay, hund reds, of
trihing omissions, forgettulnees and
postpone meuts, which made hes life
one endless endeavor to 'catch up"
"s'h VIC pto5oub, bb6htu 10
present the nselves before her minds
eye. What would this end In? Was
not the present lesson sufficiently mo.
mentous to teach her to train herself In
a different echool?
She rose and came to her hrsbepd,s
side. laying one tremulous hand on his
"rhere shall be no more missing but.
tons. my love-" she said, earnestly.
He comprehended all that she left IN
spoken, aud silently pressed the little
hand In his OWL; and not word more
was said upon the subject.
But 1t was not forgotten. Mrs. Chick-
erly set herself resolutely TO work to
uproot the rank weeds growing In tho
garden OF her life. And she succeeded,
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Messrs. T. j Cheney Il Uo.-Hentlean an
have been IN the general practice of me
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l can Hairs Oatarrh Cure, Manufactured by
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